MOBILE, Alabama – A jury this afternoon convicted a man accused of shooting a police officer and trying to kill four others during an ill-fated robbery of a Midtown supermarket last year.

Prosecutors called more than 20 witnesses and introduced nearly 200 exhibits in an attempt to prove that Jackeith Harrison, 20, fired the shot that nearly killed off-duty Officer Chad Wynne, who was responding to the robbery call at the Winn-Dixie on Government and Catherine streets on March 2 last year.

Prosecutors argued that Harrison also tried to kill four other officers he shot at but did not hit – Brad Lathan, Samuel Glass, Anthony Meade and LaJuan Ruffin.

Mobile County Circuit Judge Rick Stout scheduled sentencing for May 30. Harrison faces up to life in prison for each count, and Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich said she would seek six consecutive life sentences.

Rich said prosecutors were fortunate that the Winn-Dixie had an excellent surveillance system. She was able to show jurors images of the masked robbers from multiple angles. Perhaps even more compelling, she added, was the body camera that Wynne was wearing.

Unlike the store video footage, the body cam had sound, allowing jurors to hear the excruciating pain that Wynne was in as his fellow officers drove him to the hospital. A doctor testified the officer likely would have died had police waited for an ambulance.

“It brought the events of the crime into the courtroom,” Rich told reporters outside the courtroom, with Wynne standing at her side.

Defense attorney Robert F. Cowboy “Bob” Clark, who argued that co-defendant Ronald Crear was the triggerman, expressed disappointment with the outcome.

“I’m never shocked about what a jury does,” he said. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.”

According to testimony at the trial, one of the robbers – who prosecutors said was Crear – went with the store manager to the cash room to open the safe, which originally had $30,000 in it. Police found a book bag with $2,127 inside.

In a videotaped interrogation played for the jury, Harrison admitted that he was armed and that he went to the Winn-Dixie with Crear to commit a robbery. But he denied shooting at anybody.

Prosecutors contended that Harrison was the one who intimidated Winn-Dixie employees lying on the floor of an Internet café in the front of the store. One of the employees testified that the gunman said someone was going to die that night.

Clark tried to convince jurors that prosecutors had the wrong man. He introduced mug shots of both defendants showing that his client was the smaller of the two. All of the witnesses testified that the shooter was the taller man.

In ignoring that fact, prosecutors were being dishonest with the jury, Clark argued. Outside the courtroom, he refused to back away from the pointed tone he struck inside.

“This is not a Sunday school social,” he said. “If you think I’m not going to throw that grenade, you’re (crazy).”

During her closing argument, Rich reacted angrily to Clark’s accusation. She brushed it off after the verdict.

“It got very personal by the defense. The state didn’t do anything personal,” she said. “We concentrated on the facts of this particular case. And that’s what the jury listened to.”

Stout last month sentenced Crear to back-to-back life sentences. Later this month, Collier Kirksey will go on trial. Prosecutors allege that, as a store employee, he provided inside information to the robbers and then pretended to be a victim.

Rich said the trial will feature additional evidence not presented this week.